Outlook and messenger

[Guest]

I have recently got a new PC and have loaded Office XP. I have set up outlook
to send and receive from my main email account. I also have a hotmail account
which I used to access from messenger by right clicking on it and selecting
'my email inbox' which would open the hotmail web page. Now when I select 'my
email inbox' it opens outlook!? Messenger and outlook seem to be linked in
some way as I cannot close messenger while outlook is still open. All I want
to do is use messenger to acess my hotmail account and not to have it linked
to outlook, any ideas how I can change this. Thanks.....

 

[RobertVA]

I have recently got a new PC and have loaded Office XP. I have set up outlook
to send and receive from my main email account. I also have a hotmail account
which I used to access from messenger by right clicking on it and selecting
'my email inbox' which would open the hotmail web page. Now when I select 'my
email inbox' it opens outlook!? Messenger and outlook seem to be linked in
some way as I cannot close messenger while outlook is still open. All I want
to do is use messenger to acess my hotmail account and not to have it linked
to outlook, any ideas how I can change this. Thanks.....

You would stand a better chance for an answer in an one of the Outlook
groups on this server/site. If you access through a browser you will
need to navigate you way through the "Community Newsgroups" menu on the
left side, since the site uses frames.

 

[Jonathan Kay [MVP]]

Greetings,

You'll simply need to change Hotmail back to the default mail handler. To do so, open up
Internet Explorer, click the Tools menu, then Internet Options, then Programs tab and under
E-mail, select Hotmail.

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Jonathan Kay
Microsoft MVP - Windows Messenger/MSN Messenger/Windows Live Messenger
Associate Expert
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/
Messenger Resources - http://messenger.jonathankay.com
All posts unless otherwise specified are (c) 2006 Jonathan Kay.
You *must* contact me for redistribution rights.

 

[Guest]

Thanks very much Jonathan. That cured the problem with my e-mail inbox in
messenger but I want my main e-mail accounts as my default handler!?. On my
old PC I had this set up, messenger would always open the hotmail web page
and display my hotmail account seperatly.

I managed to stop messenger opening with outlook by disabling instant
messaging in options/ other.

Any other suggestions? I think I set messenger to use my main e-mail
accounts when I first ran it. Is there any way to run this again and change
this setting to hotmail?
I though of uninstalling and reinstalling but messenger is not listed in the
remove programs list.

Thanks in advance.

 

[Jonathan Kay [MVP]]

Greetings,

If you actually want it to login and access your Hotmail account, you'll need to be using MSN
Messenger (http://messenger.msn.com/download) and have a @msn.com or @hotmail.com Passport
signed in [and it will just magically work].

--
Jonathan Kay
Microsoft MVP - Windows Messenger/MSN Messenger/Windows Live Messenger
Associate Expert
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/
Messenger Resources - http://messenger.jonathankay.com
All posts unless otherwise specified are (c) 2006 Jonathan Kay.
You *must* contact me for redistribution rights.